"In general what has dated most in Mr. Salinger’s writing is not the prose—much of the dialogue, in the stories especially and in the second half of 'Franny and Zooey,' still seems brilliant and fresh—but the ideas. Mr. Salinger’s fixation on the difference between 'phoniness,' as Holden Caulfield would put it, and authenticity now has a twilight, ’50s feeling about it. It’s no longer news, and probably never was."
In The New York Times, Charles McGrath contemplates J. D. Salinger, who turns ninety today.
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